The Chosen One Was Me, Not You

84 – {Duty of the Chosen} 2

{Duty of the Chosen}

Theodore’s voice seemed a bit heavy to Erland and Gunnar’s ears.

‘What the hell is going on?’

Having such doubts, they followed Theodore carefully and slowly.

That was when I went inside.

“Kkok, kkok, kkok!”

“Kuong! Cuong!”

I heard the cries of dogs and chickens that seemed to be raised by the villagers.

And the middle-aged women in the village were throwing feed to the chickens, and the dogs were eating leftovers from the villagers.

I could see some of the chickens moving for a while heading towards the warm chicken coop.

It looked like an ordinary village in the Thran Empire, nothing more or less.

“Is there something wrong here?”

“Skyroad Gongja, what the hell is wrong with this place?”

To Erland and Gunnar, it was a very ordinary village scene.

The villagers seemed to be living a normal life.

“It’s a foreigner.”

At that time, I saw a man holding an axe, as if he was cutting down trees.

“Yes.”

Theodore covered his face with a hood and replied with respect.

Erland and Gunnar were puzzled by his appearance.

‘Why are you like that? Why are you covering your face?’

‘The heir of the Duke of Skyroad just saying honorifics to commoners?’

The two questioned for two reasons, because of Theodore’s words, they just tried to watch.

“He’s an outsider.”

“I’m an outsider.”

Several villagers could see outsiders gathering curiously.

There were also young children among them, and children of various ages gathered, from those who looked to be between 7 and 8 years old to those in their early teens.

‘You look peaceful.’

Although outsiders are viewed with wonder, that was not unusual in the Thran Empire.

There were many cases where distribution was not going well because the roads were blocked by heavy snowfall, so it was the work of wizards and soldiers in the Thran Empire to clear the snow on days when it was not snowing.

However, it is not always possible to keep your eyes peeled, so in the case of small towns like this, there are many cases where transactions with the outside are active only for a certain period of time, so there were many cases where outsiders were unfamiliar.

‘Hmm?’

As Erland and Gunnar looked at the villagers, they suddenly felt eerie.

‘Live?’

They figured it out to live.

The sudden feeling of life gave them an eerie feeling.

‘Where are you?’

And they quickly found out where the feeling of living comes from.

“Kuaaa!”

Suddenly, a man with red eyes emanating from his eyes was seen brandishing an ax at Theodore.

I could easily block it, but I saw Theodore deliberately dodging the attack and knocking the man over by kicking him in the leg.

“What, what?”

“Why all of a sudden?”

As the two panicked at this sudden situation, Erland and Gunnar saw the villagers watching them approaching, men and women, young and old, each carrying a pickaxe or an axe, or even a cleaver and spear.

“It’s an intruder.”

“Let’s kill.”

“Intruders from outside.”

I could feel the viciousness of killing them as they mumbled madly.

I don’t know why they suddenly wanted to kill them, but Erland and Gunnar hurriedly took out their identification cards and said.

“Everyone, stop! I am Erland, the second vice-captain of the Imperial Wizards of the Thran Empire!”

“I am Gunnar, the 3rd vice-captain of the Imperial Knights of the Thran Empire!”

They revealed their position in the Thran Empire.

Ordinary people who belonged to the Imperial Magic Order and the Imperial Knight Order would prostrate themselves in astonishment.

Especially in the Thran Empire, where the culture of worshiping the strong was deeper than in other regions.

In addition, the two were not just ordinary members, but rose to the rank of vice-captain.

“They are dangerous.”

“Definitely kill.”

However, the movement of those who were stained with life did not stop.

It was shocking to both of them that there were even children among them who had gathered to watch them.

“Die!”

A little boy, now about 7 or 8 years old, was running at me with a cleaver.

“Kill!”

A girl who seemed to have just turned 10 was approaching, brandishing her cleaver as well.

“What?”

“Hold! Hold!”

The two were taken aback by the villagers attacking them despite revealing their identities, but they responded quickly.

Gunnar hurriedly cut off the weapons of those who were brandishing them at him, snapping his limbs and subduing them without killing them.

Erland subdued them by paralyzing them with magic.

“Kuaaa! Kill the intruder!”

However, they seemed to be crawling towards me with red eyes shining.

I got goosebumps seeing them not quite normal.

Especially, it was bizarre to see even young children attacking with their eyes turned upside down with anger.

“…….”

Theodore said nothing about the situation.

But after a while, Erland and Gunnar were bewildered by the rapidly changing circumstances around them.

“Uh, huh?”

“What, what?”

The throats of the villagers were neatly cut all at once.

Knowing that this was the act of cutting his own throat with a sword, Gunnar looked at Theodore involuntarily.

He had a sword in his hand before he knew it.

‘There is blood on it.’

There was even blood on the sword.

But at what time did all these people’s heads beheaded?

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No matter how strong he was, this was a level of speed that didn’t make sense.

“Even children…”

After the doubts went away, a feeling of rejection came over me.

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No matter how strange their condition was, they were still children.

However, it was difficult to accept psychologically that he cut the throats of these young boys and girls without even looking for a way to treat them.

However, an abnormality occurred at the part where the neck was cut.

Suddenly, a bubble of blood erupted from the severed neck.

Then, the body, which began to swell in a grotesque shape, exploded at once.

“Uh, huh?”

Erland and Gunnar, who had experienced battles such as slashing countless monsters and occasionally cutting or burning the heads of bandits themselves, were horrified at this bizarre sight.

And it was too disgusting a sight to behold.

The sight of the corpse exploding, spraying blood, flesh, and internal organs all over the place, staining the eyes red, was horrifying. Compared to the scene that followed, this was just a skirmish.

“My God.”

Erland and Gunnar, who were proud of their strong hearts, had to admit that their thoughts were too arrogant.

The creatures that came out when people’s bodies were torn apart had human shapes.

The height and structure of the limbs were similar to those of humans.

However, the body had four long legs similar to those of insects, and the head reminded of a hideous insect with sharp teeth and a long snout.

“Helmint.”

Theodore called the strange creatures that appeared like that.

“Hey, Helminto?”

“More on that later.”

After delaying the explanation, Theodore cut Helminto’s body into pieces vertically.

Green blood spattered on the ground.

“Kieh!”

Bizarre monsters that were neither humans nor insects with the body of a human roared and roared and charged not only at Theodore, but also at Erland and Gunnar.

However, the moment Theodore lightly squeezed his hand and then opened it, the space they were in was distorted and their bodies were crushed together.

When spreading it to people, even if the target was William Artin, he had spread his power while holding circumstances in his hands, but at the moment, he was simply crushed into space without any mercy.

After a while, when space returned to normal, the bodies of monsters called Helminto piled up in the snow.

In this way, the snow-covered ground was stained with red blood, followed by green blood.

“This, how did this happen?”

The throats of the villagers who were acting strangely aggressive were cut, and these grotesque monsters just popped out.

It was completely incomprehensible to them.

“I will explain the details in front of Her Majesty the Empress.”

Having said that, Theodore took off his hood for a moment, revealing his face.

Then he closed his eyes for a moment while looking at the marks of six pieces all over the place, and he looked as if he was meditating.

[Ugh.]

[Ahh.]

And Erland and Gunnar almost screamed.

The villagers who were obviously dead were starting to show up again.

But if you look closely, they appear semi-transparent, like ghosts.

I had heard of warlocks using human souls as ghost-type monsters, but it was the first time I had actually seen such a ghost.

And they seemed to be in some pain as they let out screams.

The sight of them standing all around, screaming in pain as if asking for recognition of their suffering, aroused sympathy in Erland and Gunnar, but it gave them a visceral chill at the fact that the dead were so gathered together.

But Theodore looked at them with an unwavering gaze.

“Theodore Skylord, the successor of the Duke of Skylord in the Arkan Empire, will grant you freedom.”

With Theodore’s words, he caused a wave of something.

Then, the complexion of the souls, who had been groaning in pain, became peaceful.

Among them were the children Erland and Gunnar had seen.

[Ah!]

[Calm!]

[Liberated!]

[Thank you! Thank you!]

I could see the spirits of the villagers disappearing as the happy faces also gave thanks.

‘Is it gone?’

I couldn’t get a sense of reality even after seeing what had happened.

And Theodore spoke to Erland and Gunnar with an expressionless face that did not know how to feel.

“This is part of the apocalypse. And it is my duty as the Chosen One to prevent this apocalypse.”

Erland and Gunnar realized even though they didn’t want to realize at this moment that the position of being the Chosen was by no means a glorious position.